(7 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
George, South Africa – 7 May 2024
1. STILL of scene of collapsed building
2. Various STILLS of emergency workers on the scene of building collapse
3. STILL of sniffer dog with an emergency worker on the scene of a collapsed building
4. STILL of collapsed building
STORYLINE:
Rescue teams trying to find dozens of construction workers missing since a multi-story apartment complex collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa have made contact with 11 people buried alive beneath the mangled wreckage, authorities said Tuesday.
The five-story building had been under construction when it collapsed Monday.
Six workers have been confirmed dead and there are fears that the death count could rise sharply.
There is no news on 37 other people unaccounted-for amid the huge slabs of concrete and metal scaffolding that came crashing down when the building collapsed in the city of George, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Cape Town.
Twenty-one other workers were rescued from the site and taken to various hospitals, with at least 11 of them suffering severe injuries, the George municipality said.
Colin Deiner, head of the provincial Western Cape disaster management services, said the search-and-rescue operation would likely take at least three days.
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